British Royal Marines are engaged in Afghan huntdown mission

Now, There is another outfit that knows how to kick some A's. May the Lord be with them.

Don't ya just love those brave Lads that go forward not knowing what they may have to face. I'm proud of all of them.;)
 
Amen to that brother! trained with them and the Norwegien's in the Artic ,Kicked some German A*s they know how to fight!:D
 
I'm sure glad that there are others that feel a bit the way I do, and I'm hopin the Lord is looking out after them a bit.
 
I remember a comment my old Marine high school buddy who lost his left knee in Korea made about the British Marines serving thre: "I thought we had it tough until I saw those British Marines standing inspection during lulls in battle."

That got my attention.
 
I tried to picture myself spit polishing my combat boots and trying to dry shave in a foxhole and came up with a blank.
 
My abiding memory of the Royal Marines comes from a few years back, when our rifle club used to hire the local military rifle range here in Somerset. There's a Marines camp about 10 miles down the road from the range.

We'd booked the range about 3 months in advance and turned up to shoot. Just as we were about to get down on the firing point, a helicopter roared in overhead and swayed to a halt, just missing sticking its tail rotor in a large oak tree...

It was the Marines; they'd got their dates mixed up. True, it was our day for the range, but what the hell, they had priority; so we packed up our gear and got ready to leave. At this point it transpired that the Marines had arrived with their 5.56mm rifles, and several thousand rounds of 9mm ammo...

This proved to be more than the officer i/c could handle. He told us we could have the range for the day - for free, because of the inconvenience - loaded his men back into the chopper, and roared away into the clear blue sky; this time missing the oak tree by a whole 6 feet.

We were proud of ourselves. We managed to wait till they were out of sight before bursting into fits of helpless laughter.

I guess we all have our off days.

Seriously, the Marines are great guys; tough as nails, professional, well trained and superbly led. God speed.
 
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